We’ve been hearing a lot about criminal justice reform, a movement with support from both republicans and democrats who acknowledge the myriad problems with the huge numbers of people we send to jail and prison each year, why we send them there, and how we send them there. However, this is a movement that has […]

The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on Cop Block, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. In this post, Isiah discusses a recent ruling by US District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss that the FBI has been illegally denying FOIA requests. Transparently Criminal A […]

Michael Thomas was conducting his usual business route when he noticed two Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies chasing a man around. That man was later identified as Gilbert Flores and on video (below) it appears he was murdered, with his hands in the air, by still unidentified Bexar sheriff’s deputies. See for yourselves. From the video you can tell that […]

Theresa Richard shared this post via CopBlock.org’s submit page for the Bitcoin-Fueled Content Contest. My parents raised me to respect authority and hammered that point home when it came to dealing with my elders, my teachers, my coaches and most importantly law enforcement. My father was an MP while he served in the Army in Ethiopia. […]

Recently a page about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests was added to this site (copblock.org/foia) in the hope that it lessens the learning curve on how to use that tool to obtain information and thus achieve greater transparency from those who purport to work for us. Yesterday I received an email that informed me […]

Submitted by Dustin McCaskill, of Oklahoma Cop Block Mar. 2013 – Audit of O.S.B.I. Finds Employees Working On the Clock To Raise Money For Cruise Ship Vacations An audit of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has revealed that agents used state resources and time to raise money for Non-Profits associated with the agency and […]